The City of Norfolk's Office of Resilience is seeking an innovative and results oriented professional to serve as the Resilience Engineering Manager to play a critical role in managing the City of Norfolk's Resilience Engineering projects.
The City of Norfolk’s Office of Resilience implements strategies and projects that address the shocks and stressors threatening Norfolk's livelihood and economy in the face of rising seas and increased climate vulnerability. Norfolk must adapt to the changes necessary to ensure its resilience. The incumbent will be responsible for the implementation of governing federal and state regulations, as well as the City's coastal resiliency initiatives to design a coastal community with infrastructure solutions that respond to both current and future risk.
The chosen candidate must express proven engineering project experience, typically including coastal hydraulic modeling, structural design and evaluation of design alternatives, with working knowledge of coastal resilience concepts and integrated solutions. Specializes in coastal projects to support planning and design for urban waterfront and coastal structures projects, including urban waterfront developments, restoration, dredging, shore protection structures, and flood walls, and other coastal protection. Ideal candidate has experience working with a team of engineers performing work to support the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Essential Functions/Requirements:
5 years’ experience required as an engineer leading teams.
Experience required with supervising staff and hired consultants.
Must be able to define and critique engineering scopes of work across multiple engineering disciplines.
Manages projects by designing, scheduling and budgeting processes, preparing requests for proposals, managing design contract to produce plans and specifications, reviewing project milestones, reviewing plans, providing technical assistance, providing construction oversight, preparing design revisions, and reviewing and commenting on site plans submitted for approval.
Provides technical leadership for coastal engineering projects.
Manage projects and/or project teams on an as-needed basis.
Supervises personnel by scheduling job assignments, balancing leave schedules, resolving personnel issues, and training.
Makes presentations to Council and citizens group. Responds to customer complaints and concerns.
Lead and support coastal planning, engineering, modeling, design, construction, marine structure, and resilience studies or projects.
Preferred Education/Experience/Certifications:
Bachelor's degree in coastal engineering, marine structure and/or hydrologic/hydraulic engineering or related field experience required. Master’s preferred.
7-10 years practical experience in the field preferred.
Experience with project delivery for multiple Federal, State and local coastal agencies/clients, specific experience with USACE, FEMA, USGS, NOAA strongly preferred.
Professional Engineer (VA) certification required; or ability to obtain Virginia P.E. within 6 months of hire.
Certified Floodplain Manager desired.
Project Management Professional certification desired.
